Session One Today we illustraed two historical stories . Minnie Dean and the shipwreck of the SS Tararua. This was linked into Robyn Belton's illustrations toward publishing a book about wreck of the Dundonald. We learnt how important it is to be accurate in giving a chronicle of events but also how to step inside the characters shoes invovled in the story to help visually show the emotions and perspetives of the historical event.
Can you spot the pictures that show these elements of the story?
In 1889 a six-month-old infant died under the care of Minnie Dean. Two years later, a six-week-old infant died under her care. The inquest concluded that the dead infant and other children at The Larches were all well cared for but that the premises were inadequate. Police found that she had been looking for more children to take into her care and that she had tried, unsuccessfully, to take out life insurance policies on some of the infants.
The death of the baby brought closer surveillance. In 1892, Christchurch Police took charge of a three-week-old child that Dean had adopted from its single mother for £25. The child was found wearing very dirty clothes and being fed from a bottle containing sour and curdled milk. The baby’s mother said she could scarcely recognise her child as it had ‘so altered for the worse’ in the two days that Dean had looked after it.
In 2 May 1895, a railway guard saw Minnie Dean boarding a train carrying a young baby and a hatbox. On the return trip he noticed she only had the hatbox, which, as railway porters later testified, was suspiciously heavy.
After a fruitless search along the tracks, police unearthed from Minnie Dean’s garden the recently buried bodies of two babies, and the skeleton of an older boy (whom Dean later claimed had drowned). An inquest determined that one of the babies, Dorothy Carter, had died of an overdose of the opiate laudanum, commonly used to calm irritable infants.
Minnie Dean went on trial for the murder of Dorothy Carter in Invercargill on 18 June 1895. The grim and ghastly story of Minnie Dean’s infamy was narrated by the prosecution. This was then published by newspapers so that all of New Zealand could follow the trial and gossip about it.
On 21 June, Dean was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. She was hanged at Invercargill gaol on 12 August 1895, earning the dubious honour of being the only woman ever executed in New Zealand.
After her death Minnie Dean became part of New Zealand folklore. Her grave was unmarked and most people didn’t even know its location in Winton’s cemetery, although local legend claimed that no plants would grow on her grave. For Southland children, Minnie Dean was like the bogeyman. If they were naughty, they were told things like, “You better watch out or I’ll send you off to Minnie Dean’s farm and you’ll never be heard of again.”
In January 2009, a headstone mysteriously appeared on the Block VIII Plot 2, where Minnie Dean is buried. It read: “Minnie Dean is part of Winton’s History. Where she now lies is now no mystery.” Nobody knows who put the headstone there.
SS TARARUA SHIPWRECK
The SS Tararua left Port Chalmers in Dunedin on 29 April 1881, carrying a crew of 40, 111 passengers, and a cargo which included £4000 in silver coins. Its next port of call was Bluff. The Tararua passed Nugget Point just before 1:30am. It was a dark night, and the coast could not be seen. Estimates of the steamer’s position had to be made using the ships speed, the last known position and compass readings.
Just after 5am the sound of breakers was heard, which meant that the ship was too close to shore. Captain Francis George Garrard tried to turn the Tararua out to sea but as it was coming around it struck on some rocks, breaking the propeller and unshipping the rudder.
Passengers crowded the deck in confusion. The crew tried to launch the lifeboats but were slowed in their efforts by panicking passengers. After the first lifeboat holed on launching, distress rockets were sent up and the signal cannons fired.
When the day came it could be seen that the steamer was on the Otara Reef, which runs out to sea from Waipapa Point for almost 13 kilometers. The second lifeboat was launched at 6am, carrying a passenger who made it ashore and raised the alarm at a nearby farmhouse. A farmhand then carried the news of the disaster inland by horseback. However the message was not marked urgent, and no immediate action was taken.
By now the wind had risen and the swell of the sea was increasing. Passengers remained on board the ship believing it was the safest place to be, but attempts to reach the Tararua from the shore through the surf failed.
By 2pm the ship was breaking up, and as the stern sank, the helpless passengers moved forward and up into the rigging. Only one man who tried to get to shore by swimming succeeded. Other made the attempt, clinging onto pieces of wreckage, but were sucked out to sea or lost their grip and sank, often only metres from the shore.
At about 2:30 on the second night of the wreck, as people screamed for help, there was a great crash as the masts broke and the ship rolled over. By dawn it had sunk almost out of sight and only wreckage and the occasional body remained floating on the sea. Of the 151 passengers and crew on board, only the 20 who had made it to shore survived.
A lighthouse was built on Waipapa Point in 1884.
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Great to see everyone arrive safe and sound with the snow falling outside our Hats off to History class.
We started the session with doing a silent group image map of what history means and what aspects of history are of interest to us. We had to do this in silence and look at other groups’ members’ images and words and try to branch ideas off each other, We then passed our maps around each group and groups had one minute to add anything extra that could branch off form he original groups thinking. We will use thee ideas to help plan the next session and to do a wordle of our thoughts.
We then got to choose a timeline puzzle we wanted to recreate. From WW2 to the Aztecs we choose one we were interested in and tried putting the puzzle pieces together.
Then we had a group relay activity where we had to recreate Tut tomb. One member at a time went onto the tomb to observe what was there, we were only allowed twenty second in there due to the dangerous gases. We then had to share our ideas and as a group recreate the scene.
The rest of the session focused on today being Bastille Day. We completed a mystery working out who the Man in the IIron Mask was who lived in Bastille Prison, looked at a clip about the French revolution and some information from a power point. Most people decided Count Ercolo Antonio Matthioli was the top suspect. We collated ot thinking in groups and then each published a confession for the person we thought was the man!!!
After this we looked more closely at who Marie Antoinette was.
During the French Revolution, the King of France was Louis XVI. The queen was Marie-Antoinette and she was Austrian. She was only fourteen years old when she married Louis. At first, it must have been very frightening for Marie-Antoinette to leave her family inAustria. She was just a young teenager who had to live in a foreign country with her new husband and people who were complete strangers. They lived in the magnificentpalaceofVersailles. In French it is called Le Château de Versailles. The King and Queen were executed along with many other nobles and aristocrats during the Revolution and years of ‘Terror’ that followed.
We considered the evidence to see if we thought her execution was fair.
Last but not least we looked at how to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Bastille Day, theEiffelTower (La Tour Eiffel) was built on the ground of the very first Bastille day celebrations. It was officially opened in 1889.
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Bastille Day, a big glass pyramid was built outside theLouvreMuseum (Le Musée du Louvre) in 1989. This pyramid is called La Pyramide du Louvre. Our mission was to decide what could be built for the 300thanniversary. We had everything from a guillotine to a croissant shaped restaurant .
“Hats off to History” started with looking at the future today. We looked at some metaphors’ for the future and then created our own idea using play dough.
This took us onto writing a letter to our future to open on a selected birthday.
Finally we sealed this letter in a scrapbook and also set up the scrapbook to add articles of interest to that we think might be important in the world’s history. We created the title page by using today’s Southland Times contents’.
We were also very musical learning a song about kings and queens from a horrible histories clip.
Next we travelled back in time again. We were given a role to play and some background to our character. We had to stand on a continuum line that measured our level of optimism It ended up we were all part of a village and we were about to experience the plague. We looked at some background to the plague and then received an envelope with our characters fate. We redid the continuum line which also included a graveyard section this time as many of us had passed away due to the plague.
Our time machine then took us on to the Great Fire of London. We played a version of who wants to be a millionaire using questions about this event. We had to work as a team to decide the best answer. We then looked at some more information and used a clock face divided up into sections to retell the main events. We also learnt about the difference between primary sources and secondary sources when working as a historian. Make sure you check out some of the extra links to do with the fire that are on the wiki site.
After lunch we did a quick trip to WW2 both in Germany and in New Zealand. The final focus for us was designing our “Hats off To History” hats. These hats were to represent our personal areas of interest within history.
We shared these hats along with our wall of fame posters that communicated what we would like to be remembered for. Some of these will be added to the wiki site shortly.
Name
In 2061 I will be famous for.....
Well known qualities
Inspired by....
Link to the past
creating a time machine
a bookworm on science and history and a good mathmatician
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Hamish
building the planet of glass for humans to live in
trust
friendship
computer user
it's better to try and fail rather than to not try
The Eden Project/Bio-Sphere
Marty
Time Travel
funny
experimenting
Don't Stop
travel
Emma
building a hockey turf in Winton
sporting
giving back to the community
anything is possible if you believe in yourself
because many students play on tennis courts and have to travel
Matson
Creating the only jet plane that can move in any direction
smart
algebra
can fly a plane
periodic table knowledge
never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few
Harrier ( plane) could go vertically, Winning the battle of Britan
WW2
rediscovering the moa
artist
intelligent
Hamish C
saving the whales and defeating whalers
tenacious
good at tracking
Japn is doing something illegal/They have to be stopped
have always liked whales
Lukesh
inventing a robot capable of cooking up a 3 course meal in seconds
intelligent
doing what you want is freedom, liking what you do is happiness
when he was young he often complained and noted the speed of which food was delivered
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Session One
Today we illustraed two historical stories . Minnie Dean and the shipwreck of the SS Tararua.
This was linked into Robyn Belton's illustrations toward publishing a book about wreck of the Dundonald.
We learnt how important it is to be accurate in giving a chronicle of events but also how to step inside the characters shoes invovled in the story to help visually show the emotions and perspetives of the historical event.
Can you spot the pictures that show these elements of the story?
SS TARARUA SHIPWRECK
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Have you got what it takes to be a pyramid builder?
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Session Two
The opening of Tutankhamun's Tomb
Great to see everyone arrive safe and sound with the snow falling outside our Hats off to History class.
We started the session with doing a silent group image map of what history means and what aspects of history are of interest to us. We had to do this in silence and look at other groups’ members’ images and words and try to branch ideas off each other, We then passed our maps around each group and groups had one minute to add anything extra that could branch off form he original groups thinking. We will use thee ideas to help plan the next session and to do a wordle of our thoughts.
We then got to choose a timeline puzzle we wanted to recreate. From WW2 to the Aztecs we choose one we were interested in and tried putting the puzzle pieces together.
Then we had a group relay activity where we had to recreate Tut tomb. One member at a time went onto the tomb to observe what was there, we were only allowed twenty second in there due to the dangerous gases. We then had to share our ideas and as a group recreate the scene.
The rest of the session focused on today being Bastille Day. We completed a mystery working out who the Man in the IIron Mask was who lived in Bastille Prison, looked at a clip about the French revolution and some information from a power point. Most people decided Count Ercolo Antonio Matthioli was the top suspect. We collated ot thinking in groups and then each published a confession for the person we thought was the man!!!
After this we looked more closely at who Marie Antoinette was.
During the French Revolution, the King of France was Louis XVI. The queen was Marie-Antoinette and she was Austrian. She was only fourteen years old when she married Louis.
At first, it must have been very frightening for Marie-Antoinette to leave her family inAustria. She was just a young teenager who had to live in a foreign country with her new husband and people who were complete strangers. They lived in the magnificentpalaceofVersailles. In French it is called Le Château de Versailles.
The King and Queen were executed along with many other nobles and aristocrats during the Revolution and years of ‘Terror’ that followed.
We considered the evidence to see if we thought her execution was fair.
Last but not least we looked at how to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Bastille Day, theEiffelTower (La Tour Eiffel) was built on the ground of the very first Bastille day celebrations. It was officially opened in 1889.
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Bastille Day, a big glass pyramid was built outside theLouvreMuseum (Le Musée du Louvre) in 1989. This pyramid is called La Pyramide du Louvre.
Our mission was to decide what could be built for the 300thanniversary.
We had everything from a guillotine to a croissant shaped restaurant .
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Session Three
Welcome back
“Hats off to History” started with looking at the future today. We looked at some metaphors’ for the future and then created our own idea using play dough.
This took us onto writing a letter to our future to open on a selected birthday.
Finally we sealed this letter in a scrapbook and also set up the scrapbook to add articles of interest to that we think might be important in the world’s history. We created the title page by using today’s Southland Times contents’.
We were also very musical learning a song about kings and queens from a horrible histories clip.
Next we travelled back in time again. We were given a role to play and some background to our character. We had to stand on a continuum line that measured our level of optimism It ended up we were all part of a village and we were about to experience the plague. We looked at some background to the plague and then received an envelope with our characters fate. We redid the continuum line which also included a graveyard section this time as many of us had passed away due to the plague.
Our time machine then took us on to the Great Fire of London. We played a version of who wants to be a millionaire using questions about this event. We had to work as a team to decide the best answer. We then looked at some more information and used a clock face divided up into sections to retell the main events. We also learnt about the difference between primary sources and secondary sources when working as a historian.
Make sure you check out some of the extra links to do with the fire that are on the wiki site.
After lunch we did a quick trip to WW2 both in Germany and in New Zealand.
The final focus for us was designing our “Hats off To History” hats. These hats were to represent our personal areas of interest within history.
We shared these hats along with our wall of fame posters that communicated what we would like to be remembered for. Some of these will be added to the wiki site shortly.
friendship
computer user
experimenting
giving back to the community
algebra
can fly a plane
periodic table knowledge
WW2
intelligent
good at tracking